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UNITED STATE-s PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN J. TOWER., lor BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

POLICE-CLUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,242-, dated January1, 1884. Application filed November 522, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it 72mg concern: y

Be it known that I, JOHN J. TOWER, of Brooklyn, inthe county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Police-Clubs, ofwhich the following isaspecification.

Police-clubs are frequently Wrenohed out of the oflicers hand by apowerful criminal and 4used upon him, to his injury. It is hence veryimportant that the club be constructed so as to give the officer theadvantage, and

enable him to hold his club in the most irmv manner.

My improvement is made with reference to the roughening of thepolice-club, baton, or billy, in such a manner that the hand is notliable to injury, and the club can be held both against a twisting and awrenching action.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of my improved vclub-handle.Fig. 2 is a crosssection at the line x a'. Fig. 3 shows the handle porton of the baton or day-club, With my improvements applied thereto; andFig. 4 is an elevation, in smaller size, of the night- 25 club, with thehandle shown in Fig. 1.

In Letters Patent No. 190,869, granted May 15, 1877, the handle foratool is shown, with longitudinal channels for roughening the same andgiving a rmer grasp in operating the tool.

My police-club is a new article of manufacfacture, in which the handleportion is rough ened by longitudinal grooves, said grooves beingsemioircular, or nearly so, in sectional 35' shape, so as to furnishnumerous edges against which the hand or glove comes in contact, toprevent the club being revolved in the ofiicers hand 5 and I also usesimilar peripheral grooves to prevent the club being Wrenehed from thehand by an endwise movement.

In the drawings the handle-portion b of the club a is groovedlongitudinally, as at o, such grooves being of asemioircular sectionalshape, by preference. I also employ, in most inA stances, the similarperipheral grooves, e, at the ends of the grooves c, so as to preventthe olub being wrenched out of the hand endwise.

The 'club for night service is usually a plain cylindrical stick, asseen in Fig. 4. The club or baton for day service is more Ornamental,with 5o a turned handle, as seen in Fig. 3, the grooves being applied ineither oase in the same mannei` and for the same purpose.

lIhe longitudinal grooves may be made at an inclinationv to the axis, ifdesired.

* I claim as my inventionm 1. The polioe-club having the handle portiongroovedv longitudinally, substantially as specified, the same forming anew article of manufacture.

2. The police-club having the handle portion groovedlongitudinally andperipherally, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 17th day of November, A. D. 1883.

JOHN J. TOWER.

Witnesses:

GEO. I. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. MOTT.

